Kano State Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has signed into law the state Kidnapping, Abduction and Forced labour bill which prescribed death penalty to culprits of kidnapping offense.
A Pakistani anti-terror court sentenced five people to death over the killing of a Christian couple who were lynched and burned in a kiln after being falsely accused of blasphemy.
Michael Lorriston Cornwall and Michael Mason walked out of Her Majesty’s Prison (HMP), free men, after a resentencing exercise in the High Court.
Dhaka Speedy Trial Tribunal-4 sentenced two people to death for killing a woman and her domestic help in the city’s Jatrabari area in 2015.
For being found guilty of murder, son of a traditional ruler in Mafoluku
The Alor Star High Court sentenced a father of five to
An Egyptian appeals court quashed one of two life sentences handed down against ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi since his 2013 overthrow, his lawyer and a judicial source said.
Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif confirmed death sentences awarded to another 10 hardcore terrorists.
An appeals court in Vietnam commuted the death sentence of a 73-year-old Australian woman convicted of heroin trafficking.
A military court in the northeastern semi-autonomous state of Puntland sentenced two men to death for allegedly being Islamic State members.
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) condemned Singapore’s execution of two people on 18 November.
A court awarded death sentence to one more accused person in a case related to massacre of 34 people by
